Cavanacor Gallery

 

Temple Bar Artists Exhibition at Cavanacor Gallery

4th June 2004 - 21st August 2004

Temple Bar has become famous for nurturing the arts and creativity and is known as the cultural quarter of Dublin. At its heart lies Temple Bar Studios, providing studio space for a wide and disparate group of artists.

This is the first time the Temple Bar Artists have exhibited in Donegal and the work covers a broad spectrum. Fifteen artists are exhibiting at Cavanacor Gallery: John Moore, Thierry Rudin, Patricia Hurl, Sean Fingleton, Joe Moran, Paul Coleman, Joe McGill, Katrina Maguire, Mike Duhan, Margret Tuffy, Martina Galvin, Clifford Collie, Paul Mc Kinley, Michael Boran and Oisin Breatnach.

As with much contemporary art, each of these artists has a very personal vision and unique interpretation of that vision.
Martina Galvin’s paintings incorporate synthetic materials like plastic and resin with oil on canvas with the process of making the piece central to her work. She is primarily interested in landscape and how it links to the past and holds the story of people. Patricia Hurl has concentrated on personal studies of the figure to explore ‘The Eve Factor’, tracing through her own body, generations of female ancestors.
Theirry Rudin’s process has an essence of ritual about it. She works on cotton or calico sheets and her influence over many years has been the Burren and its landscape. She distresses and ages the fabric over a period of time and then scratches and wounds it to create the marks of the Burren landscape.

Both John Moore and Clifford Collie work in oils. Collie creates monochrome landscapes while Moore’s work is purely abstract inspired by anatomical elements and he juxtaposes areas of rich colour. Paul McKinley work focuses on childhood and personal, family photographs. He extracts incidental and inconsequential details and deconstructs the image, creating a flux between the recognisable and pure abstraction. He also creates landscape studies with a defined impressionist influence.

The Temple Bar Artists will bring an exciting and stimulating diversity of artwork to the northwest in this major exhibition. It is a unique opportunity for the region to experience such a wide diversity of contemporary artistic practice. The exhibition opens on 4th June 2004 and runs until the 21st August 2004